Tag: sentence
Macedonia 06.07.23 | 19:07

Zoran Zaev’s former chief of staff Dragi Raskovski sentenced to eight years in prison

Zoran Zaev’s former chief of staff Dragi Raskovski was sentenced to eight years in prison for abuse of office, after he authorized the purchase of software from a company he founded and had direct financial interest in. Raskovski’s family also received an order not to sell the property that...
Macedonia 26.07.21 | 10:21

Sentencing expected in the second April 27th trial

The Skopje court is expected to hand the sentences in the second April 27th trial today. The highly politicized case charges several former VMRO-DPMNE officials, such as former Speaker Trajko Veljanoski and former ministers Mile Janakieski and Spiro Ristoski, with organizing the protests that ended with...
Macedonia 24.02.21 | 15:50

Next act in the Mijalkov – Zaev drama – the sentencing on Friday

With Saso Mijalkov’s return to Macedonia and into house arrest, the next event in the saga is expected on Friday, when the Skopje court will render a verdict in the first instance. Mijalkov is accused of ordering massive abuse of the wiretapping system operated by the UBK security service which...
Macedonia 29.09.20 | 21:56

Gjorcev: The imprisonment of Gordana Jankuloska is a political vendetta

The sentencing of former Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska is an act of political vendetta and a judicial charade, said VMRO-DPMNE official Vladimir Gjorcev. Jankuloska was imprisoned yesterday to serve a sentence of four years for the purchase of an armored Mercedes that is being used to this day...
Macedonia 28.09.20 | 18:03

Gordana Jankuloska begins serving out her four year prison sentence

Former Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska was transported to the Idrizovo prison today, to begin serving out her four year sentence. Jankuloska, who is a former top VMRO-DPMNE party official, was sentenced over one of the half a dozen cases initiated against her by the Zaev regime and its affiliated...
Macedonia 06.05.20 | 22:09

Former SDSM protest activist sentenced for speaking out against abuse by officials of his old party

Goran Belevski, a former SDSM party activist in the city of Kavadarci, blamed his old party of persecuting him after he was sentenced to a fine of 3.000 EUR or three months in prison for slander. Belevski, who was outspoken during SDSM’s 2015 Colored Revolution, thought that he can continue to...
Macedonia 31.03.20 | 14:31

Former Mayor of Bitola Taleski sentenced to eight years in prison in one of Janeva’s show trials

The former Mayor of Bitola Vladimir Taleski was sentenced to eight years in prison today, for alleged violations in the program to provide school transport for children. Ten other defendants were sentenced to nearly 29 years in prison, and 10 more got suspended sentences. The trial of the popular actor...
Macedonia 05.03.20 | 11:59

VMRO-DPMNE: The sentencing of Aleksandar Mitovski proves that the Zaev regime is afraid of the free press

VMRO-DPMNE blasted the sentencing of journalist Aleksandar Mitovski yesterday, as evidence of attempts by the ruling SDSM party to silence the critical and investigative press. Mitovski was sentenced to six months in prison, suspended over two years, for publishing the key testimony that proves that...
Macedonia 23.01.20 | 16:56

El Cheka given a suspended prison sentence

The Kicevo court sentenced Sekerim Ahmeti – El Cheka to a year in prison, suspended over two years. The man who lives in Chicago has been publishing unedited audio tapes from the cache which the SDSM party manipulated and used in 2015 to grab power. El Cheka’s tapes focused mostly on allegations...
Macedonia 26.02.19 | 20:39

Gruevski: It is arranged that I receive maximum sentences in each of the cases against me

In his exclusive interview with Republika, former VMRO leader Hristijan Mickoski says that he expects the courts to sentence him to the maximum possible prison sentences in each of the cases in which he has been charged. In all these cases I will be given the maximum prison sentence, even though none...

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